ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a procedure for the study of destructive obedience in the laboratory. Certain problems in psychological research require the experimenter to balance his career and scientific interests against the interests of his prospective subjects. The subject's personal responsibility for his actions is not erased because the experimenter reveals to him the means which he used to stimulate these actions. A fairly intense corrective interpersonal experience is indicated wherein the subject admits and accepts his responsibility for his own actions, and at the same time gives vent to his hurt and anger at being fooled. Perhaps an experience as distressing as the one described by Milgram can be integrated by the subject, provided that careful thought is given to the matter. The public image of psychology as a profession is highly related to our own actions, and some of these actions are changeworthy.
